ORANGE (Dalanghita) WINE

How to make orange/ dalanghita wine?

Ingredients:
1 dozen medium-sized dalanghita or naranghita or orange
2 milligrams sodium metasulfite sugar
1/8 teaspoon yeast

Procedure:
Prepare the juice
1.       Wash oranges thoroughly
2.       Cut crosswise and gently squeeze out the juice with an orange squeezer or juicer.
3.       Strain out course pulp and seeds by passing  juice through a muslin bag (katsa)
4.       Test the sugar content of the juice with a hydrometer (check sugar content against a composition table. You can consult  your favorite chemistry professor about this)
5.       Add enough sugar to make 22° - 24° Balling for a dry wine of medium alcoholic content and 32º-33º Balling for one that will contain a small amount of sugar after formulation is complete.

Ø  To prepare : 22° Balling 1.1 cups sugar/ 4.4 cups water;
                       24° Balling 1.2 cups sugar/ 4.8 cups water;
                       32° Balling 2.1 cups sugar/ 4.3 cups water;
                       33° Balling 2.2 cups sugar/ 4.4 cups water;
Pasteurize wine:
(1)    Transfer wine to final containers. Seal and Pasteurize at 60°-72° C (140°-160° F) for 20 minutes. Be sure to place bottles on rack and keep submerged in hot water. Seal tightly and invert to heat the lids further.

(2)    Cool, label, date and store.

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